Wes Phillips

Marisa Waddell, a collegue of Jon Iverson's over at KCBX, writes:


"I'm doing a pilot study for my thesis and need some help. I put a survey online about new radio technologies, and need 100 completed surveys in the next week. Can you pass the link along to folks you know, who might help?"

Why we love to hate Paris Hilton—not that most of us would behave any differently had we been given the chance to grow up entitled and ignorant.

"In [Daniel Kehlmann's] first novel translated into English, the 31-year-old literary wunderkind's breezy, sometimes charming and ultimately inconsequential work follows the actual lives, careers and eventual intersection of two of Germany's brightest scientists: explorer, geographer and naturalist Alexander Von Humboldt and the astronomer and aptly crowned 'prince of mathematicians' Carl Friedrich Gauss."

Imagine that—Microsoft is touchy about negative reviews. The interesting thing is that it thinks it can prevent negative reviews by preventing the use of its logo.

The RIAA's Cary Sherman tells us we're all wet about fair use.

Is Apple interested in getting into the satellite radio business? Why not?Nobody's made money at it yet—that makes it a natural for Cupertino.

Cartoon Brew has come to the aide of those of us looking for the perfect Kwanzanukmas gift for animaniacs with its review of Walt">http://www.cinetecadelfriuli.org/pubblicazioni/Libri/publications_06.ht… Disney's Silly Symphonies: A Companion to the Classic Cartoon Series.